What role does agriculture play in relation to industrialization?

Answer 1

A lot of the farmers moved to cities to work in factories. Most of them gave up farming for factory work.

Answer 2

2. How industrialization affects agriculture?

Farming became less geared toward the sufficiency of a single family as manufactured goods and foodstuffs became available by train or steamship. Instead, farms tended to concentrate on growing crops for market.

Industrialization affects us because of the civilization was able to develop.

Inventions like Cyrus McCormick's mechanical reaper for harvesting grains decreased the amount of labor needed to work a farm and removed the need for horses and other draft animals. Mechanization permitted farmers to expand the amount of land they had under cultivation.

Industrialization rendered the family farm nearly extinct and undermined the skilled artisans in farming communities. Members of farming families moved to cities and worked in factories under unhealthy conditions and for oppressive hours.

Farms themselves became corporate operations that achieved vertical integration by controlling distribution and marketing. Corporate farmers also invested in the genetic engineering of hardier seeds that they could also patent.

Modern industrial agriculture is reliant on synthetic fertilizers and pesticides, which has dramatically increased crop yields in the second half of the 20th century. Scholars call this increase in crop yields the Green Revolution.